[ On that, they agree. It's plain enough that Nanami deems it an excess of words to voice, instead nodding, crossing his arms rather than sit. Though the positions aren't mutually exclusive. Having established that, Dazai's employment at an, the Armed Detective Agency is mostly irrelevant at the moment. It lends itself to a certain degree of inference about the man himself, but one shouldn't take too much from the name alone.

Should he not be healthy — ]

"At all" is too conclusive given these circumstances.

[ Shouldn't it be, we wouldn't have met in that way? Not that he protests the notion that they wouldn't have met. It was simply a poor choice of words — and if not careless, than this side of either fatalistic or egotistical. ]

But, that's my assumption as well. Because those sorts of events in either world probably don't matter here, I'm not asking to align our worlds. Instead, I was getting to the level of technology available to you.

[ If only to level set. That might not really matter, either, but to finish it, ]

For example, if you've got a cell phone, you'll have realized it's useless here. But, have you received one of their charms?

[ Lifting his left arm from the cross, his sleeve shifted enough in the movement to expose his watch and, fastened to it, gold, etched with the cresting wave. ]